Message fro Plodding Hippo

PH.. I have been following (loosely) your quest for a zillion marathons this year on your 'year out'..

Just curious..

With all the extra training and racing have you noticed any significant changes in you? Just wondered whether any of the following would apply to you:

- you've lost weight?- can run faster, for longer?- PB time is dropping?- getting to 20+ miles is almost effortless?- you are becoming addicted to running (or the opposite, you do so much that it is losing its appeal?)?- you have repeated injuries

erstill 3 stone overweightnot really much faster(first mara on 8 miles training , 5.58, justposted a 5.41 last sunday-pb is still only 5.15)20 miles is a nightmare-i never do it in training(i have to race to persualde myself to go that llong, and ive only once ever run 20 miles without a walk break)

Every training run is a struggle and i have to force myself out of the door, so no, not addicted!

you are missing the point for this yearbut i havent explained myself on this thread, though i have done elsewhere

you see, I used to work lots of weekendsi curently dontSo am getting the maras in while i canI accept there may be no pbs-thats fineFor now!the other thing ive done since leaving work is run every day-even if its only a mileSort of made a promise you see

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